On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 14:03, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> This adds support for using the SVR4/glibc word delimeters
> in regcomp as an extension to what posix requires.
> 
> We already have [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] as extensions, apparently
> from 'Henry Spencer's Alpha 3.0 regex release' back in 1993.
> 
> But now Solaris/Linux/FreeBSD all have the other syntax
> and sadly lots of uses of grep and sed in what are supposed
> to be portable projects use it.
> 
> This diff is from Garrett D'Amore in Illumos via FreeBSD.
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/516

I have a slight preference for my diff (I think it's clearer than
deeper nested switches), but no matter.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=131094975127745&w=2

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